# CVE-2012-1942: The Mozilla Updater and Windows Updater Service in Mozilla Firefox 12.0, Thunderbird 12.0, and SeaMonkey 2.9 on Windows allow local users to

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2012-06-05 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

The Mozilla Updater and Windows Updater Service in Mozilla Firefox 12.0, Thunderbird 12.0, and SeaMonkey 2.9 on Windows allow local users to gain privileges by loading a DLL file in a privileged context.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-35.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-45.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00012.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16951
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748764

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